Filed under: Windows, Windows Mobile
Vista gadgets to run on Windows Mobile 6
by Brad Linder Feb 27th 2007
I'm still a little dubious that a 3-inch screen is the right place for widgets. But I have to say it looks like Microsoft is working on some pretty cool tools integrating Vista sidebar gadgets with Windows Mobile 6.On10 has a video showing off a prototype. At this point, you can drag and drop a Vista gadget from your PC to your mobile device, but it only shows up in an application that runs gadgets. Eventually the goal is to let you run gadgets on your Today Screen, which I have to say would be pretty cool.
The problem is most gadgets look small on your PC screen, but would take up serious screen real estate on your phone or PDA. If they can figure out a way to scale the gadgets so that you can easily throw 3 or 4 widgets and a few traditional plugins onto your Today Screen at the same time, that would be exciting.
Interestingly Windows Mobile Program Manager Mel Sempat says in the video that the inspiration behind bringing gadgets to mobile devices was the iPhone.
[via Jason Langridge]
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